LOS ANGELES--June 8, 2001--With its exclusive Eyewitness News Poll
conducted by SurveyUSA, ABC7 Eyewitness News was the most accurate in
projecting the outcome of the runoff election for Los Angeles Mayor.

In a poll of 1000 likely voters released the day before the election, ABC7
and SurveyUSA projected City Attorney James Hahn to defeat former State
Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa by a margin of 53% to 43%.† The actual June 5 totals were 54% to 46%.

ABC7 Eyewitness News and SurveyUSA began tracking the runoff election in
April, capturing the high-stakes battle in seven separate surveys.† This tracking poll showed a swell of
support for Antonio Villaraigosa in mid-May and documented Hahnís successful
effort to rebound using an advertising blitz in the last two weeks of the
campaign.

Earlier this year, only ABC7 Eyewitness News and SurveyUSA accurately
projected Antonio Villaraigosa as the winner of the primary election for
Mayor of Los Angeles.† That poll of
1200 likely voters showed Villaraigosa leading with 31%, James Hahn in second
place with 22% and businessman Steve Soboroff trailing in third place with
18%.† The actual tallies were
Villaraigosa 30%, Hahn 25% and Soboroff 21%.†
Both polls had a margin of error of Ī3%

ABC7 Eyewitness News, Southern California's No. 1 station for news, will
continue to track local and state elections, providing unmatched television
coverage of Southland politics.

SurveyUSA is the nation's largest local opinion pollster, conducting
breaking news polls, election polls and market research for more than 40
television stations and media outlets nationwide. In the 2000 election it
delivered 462 election polls in 112 races across 26 states. In Los Angeles SurveyUSA
operates under an exclusive agreement with ABC7.